Confronting the Contradictions of America’s Past August 17, 2012 Full Show

Learning from our racial past is crucial to addressing America’s current ethnic issues, but only if we confront key contradictions in our shared history. In a conversation with Bill Moyers, Khalil Muhammad helps bring these issues to light. Muhammad heads the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and is the author of The Condemnation of Blackness, which connects American histories of race, crime and the making of urban America to modern headlines.